Cash back sites?

Flowers2015

I keep seeing people talking about money they've earned from cash back or survey sites.

What are the best ones? Are they really worth it?

vlad

Topcashback and quidco seem the 2 most popular,I find them abit hit and miss tbh.

StrugglingYouth

I have used Quidco for a few months now to link to buy clothes, tyres and bed linen. So far I have banked £13 and I have another £24 in the pipeline.

It takes a long time if you arent a premium member for Quidco (Costs £5/annum) but its money back for stuff you'd have paid for anyway.

DCFC79

See as getting the cash back as a bonus and not a dead certain.

Sharon87

Since 2008 I've earned about £1400 in Quidco. Some of that was taking advantage of gambling offers, I earned £20 for a £20 deposit and then I won about £80 with that £20!

The largest amounts are for utilities like electric, gas, Sky/Virgin.etc I earned £125 cashback for getting Sky.

Sanctioned_Parts_List

I tried out Topcashback - it's OK if you know exactly what you want, and there happens to be an offer for it at the time. More often, though, I can get the same or similar product more cheaply elsewhere, even accounting for the cashback.

anna_1977

I've used topcashback for the past 5 years and payout is currently at £810.00
It's good if you renew all things like insurances etc with them. I just changed by Sky package to include fibre optic BB and got £60.60 cashback. Even the small online shopping 1% cashbacks add up

Lemonsqueezer78

I've made about £900 from topcash over the last 3 years. Well worth it in my opinion.

Whenever you shop anywhere online, check topcash and quidco first to see if cashback is offered. Even if it's only a small amount (1-2% etc) why wouldn't you take that for doing nothing more than logging in to a website first?

Take advantage of big cashback deals - for example changing your Gas/Electricity supplier each year and not only get cheaper energy but earn very decent cashback amounts from your new supplier. Even some of the comparison sites which you use to find better energy deals pay cashback when you use them.

Change your Home insurance and car insurance regularly - ditto, earn some good cashback.

Booking a holiday? Check out and compare different travel booking websites - often selling the same rooms/flights/packages (at the same cost) to see who is paying the most cashback. I've earned £100 back on some travel bookings.

Last year my partner even cancelled our Sky subscription that was in their name - and I took out a new one in my name - earning £150+ in cashback as a "new" subscriber PLUS a lower monthly cost as part of a new subscriber deal!

I have also taken advantage of most of the online casino sign up offers too - which not only give you up to £20-30 cashback but they also offer the exact same "Put down £10 get £30 to play with" deals to you - meaning you get your £30 of bets and they PAY YOU a net £10 cashback for the privilege. That's right - effectively £30 of "free" bets and £10-20 (or so) in your pocket. If you're lucky you may even win from your free bets (I happened to win £200 on one of these offers - but don't expect to win... use up your bets and then walk a way with your cashback - DO NOT keep betting)

thegreenone

I've made about the same as Lemonsqueezer and I've been very pleased but I also agree with Sanctioned Parts List. I looked for car insurance for DH and it was cheaper to go for a few pounds back from one of the comparison sites than getting a larger sum from a direct site. IYSWIM? Also agree with DCFC79, so perhaps use it as a way of saving for next Christmas?

MoneyMission2015

I've used TopCashBack for a few years now and have earned just over £1k from it. Whenever I need to buy something I check to see if they are offering cashback and if they are I go through TCB first to earn that cashback.


It's great if you are purchasing anyway, but don't fall in to the trap of buying stuff just to earn cashback. I used it all over Christmas when I was ordering gifts for people but probably wont use it for a few months now because I don't need to purchase anything again until my home insurance renewal is due in March.


With insurance renewals etc I do check them to see if there are any offers, but be careful you don't purchase just because of the cashback offered, because sometimes the deal isn't the cheapest one you can get even with the added cashback on top, so isn't worth it. For instance, I renewed my car insurance in August. There was a provider offering £72 cashback for purchasing a car insurance policy, but when I got a quote from them they were £100 more expensive than the renewal quote I'd had from my current insurers. Also there are occasions when the cashback doesn't track for some reason, so you don't get the cashback.

Lemonsqueezer78

MoneyMission2015 wrote: »

With insurance renewals etc I do check them to see if there are any offers, but be careful you don't purchase just because of the cashback offered, because sometimes the deal isn't the cheapest one you can get even with the added cashback on top, so isn't worth it. For instance, I renewed my car insurance in August. There was a provider offering £72 cashback for purchasing a car insurance policy, but when I got a quote from them they were £100 more expensive than the renewal quote I'd had from my current insurers.

Agree with this. Sometimes you are better off using a comparison site that offers cashback - rather than cashback offers from the insurers themselves. That way you get cashback, but you always know your getting the cheapest deal on the insurance itself.